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SlimTimer Shutting Down on Jan 1, 2020
It’s with a tinge sadness I’m announcing that, after almost 15 years online, SlimTimer will be shut down on Dec 15, 2019 (Updated: Jan 1, 2020). You can, and should, export your data ASAP via this link (be sure to login first). SlimTimer will always hold a place in my heart as…
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Database maintenance to improve performance – April 14 12am PST
You may have noticed increasing slowness with running reports. Database upgrades put in place to improve.
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Reports temporarily disabled; Database maintenance tonight – Mar 26 7-10pm PST
You may have noticed increasing slowness with running reports. To help improve response times reporting is temporarily being disabled until database maintenance can be run later on this evening. Reporting will be re-enabled after maintenance is complete. Thanks!
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Unplanned Outage (Jan 12, 2012)
We ran into some server issues that took the site offline for over an hour. We were alerted and fixed the root issue (disk failure). We don’t expect any further issues nor was there any data loss. Thanks for your patience and sorry for the inconvenience.
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Database maintenance this evening (July 1, 2011)
You’ve probably noticed the service slowing down significantly in the last few days. That’s PostgreSQL’s way of saying it needs to be reloaded (don’t get me started on it). We’re going to be taking down the site for roughly an hour this evening (from 6-8pm PST). As always be…
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Database maintenance this evening (Feb 1, 2011)
We’re going to be taking down the site for roughly an hour this evening (from 6-8pm PST). As always be sure to keep your timers open and everything will be saved when the site comes back online. Thanks!
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New rounding options for reports.
By popular request we’ve improved your rounding options for reports. You now can specify if you want to round only the totals (how things were rounded previously) or whether each individual time entry should be rounded up. Since this could lead to lots of short entries being…
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API Change
One of the things we’ve noticed during the server move is people making API calls to retrieve *very* large sets of Time Entries. This is causing usage spikes that are adversly affecting the overall response time. In response we’ve updated the API to only return 5000 entries at a…
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Planned Outage (Sept 6 17:00-23:00 PST)
We’re going to take advantage of the historically low traffic on this the Sunday before Labor Day (in the US) to move our hosting infrastructure to a new provider. It shouldn’t take 7 hours but just want to set pretty conservative expectations. Thanks for your understanding.…
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Unplanned Outage
Our host (EngineYard) is having major issues with the cluster we’re on (ey05): http://engineyard.wordpress.com/ We’re following up and hope to hear something positive soon.